Jola’s training was disturbed by an urgent message from Anita telling him that Mira had walked around with very high quality armor and people were looking for the source, he was asked to go to the meeting hall and address all the people on what was going on.

When he went to the meeting hall there were about 200 people, most of the Rank 4s that didn’t work for him were present, the only ones missing were the two Rank 4 teams that were on a mission, the rest were Rank 3s.

Jola addressed them saying “Hi everyone. So I heard you’re asking for the high quality armor you saw Mira wearing” people murmured, Jola continued “Well you’ll get them, in the future”

Jola explained the trade he had with Mira and told them how all of it was made by her master. He explained that the reason for the campaign being postponed was because of the skilled weapon research.

“With the sword her master has sold us, we have made great progress in just a day of receiving the sword; I feel that within a month we’ll be able to mass produce skilled weapons. But I’m sure you all know they will be expensive as fuck so save up, for the Rank 3s you all will probably be able to get yours in 2 months, maximum.

I ask that you don’t annoy Mira with questions about her master, I assure you if I couldn’t get it out of her; you probably can’t. And because of her connection to such an important and probably very powerful person, there will be severe punishment to anyone who tries to annoy her.

I don’t want a person who is far beyond what we can handle coming to attack the sanctuary because we offended his disciple” Jola said in conclusion.

The murmurs intensified as he left the podium. He went to the conference room where all the important people that worked for him were waiting. He entered the room, sat at the head of the table and said “Let’s get this meeting over with”.

Anita frowned at his nonchalance; he had been obsessed with the sword and would not let anything interfere with his practice time apart from research requests. Anita said “How far has the research gone?”

The question was directed at Demola who was now a Rank 5, he answered “We have learnt a lot but the greatest thing we learnt was that in order to make higher quality weapons, it is necessary to combine our human technologies with the materials of the monsters for our working equipment and for the weapons and armor we make, hence we are currently investigating the electrical and chemical properties of various monster parts. As for the weapon skills Deji can give a more appropriate report”

A 19 year old boy/man stood up and said “For the weapon skills we have to study and recreate a brand new field of engineering to be able to make them. The weapon has circuits made of monster parts that are able to control and convert pure energy. If we can understand the principles behind the way they work we can recreate the skills, but only people who can manipulate energy can use the skills of the weapon, so it will mostly be Rank 4s and 3s buying it.

The major problem we have is finding monster materials that are similar to the one that was used, for tests. On closer inspection the weapon is made up of not only a Rank 6 monster but also a Rank 5 monster, we have never killed a Rank 6 so we can only replicate the things he did with the Rank 5 monster in the near future.

I propose that we use the time before the campaign to do raids on monsters that have similar capabilities to the Rank 5 monster as the Rank 6 monster seems to be very unique”

The members of the meeting murmured for a while before someone raised a hand, it was a Rank 2 member, she asked “Are we really going to be able to create skilled weapons in a month?”

Deji answered “Yes, we already have the materials that are similar to the Rank 5 monster, many Rank 5 and Rank 4 undead possess similar properties with the monster; they use aura. Although we won’t be able to recreate the mental control function we should at least be able to create the aura blade skill in a month”

After the question was answered no other questions came up and Anita said "With no more questions available, the meeting is dismissed. You'll all get reports on the progress of the research" and the meeting ended.

Deji returned to the private room with his team, he thought 'Stupid raid, why can't they just let me focus on research'.

His team had 8 members including himself, 6 men and 2 women. Deji was the strategist and ranger for his team. There were 3 attackers, 2 balance breakers, 1 ranger and 2 defenders.

He was the leader if his team, the team focused more on offense, the reason being the self sacrificing nature of the undead, it caused defense to be very useless except if the defender was very proficient.

He called the other teams after checking the condition of his own and he went with his team toward the congregation point at the South boundary of the city.

...

Pentagon received a message to gather at the South boundary of the city for the raid.

When Mira got to the congregation point she saw about 60,000 low Ranks, she couldn't believe her eyes 'There are so many people in the sanctuary? I never noticed'

She tapped Funmi's shoulders and asked "Do you know how many people are in the sanctuary?" Funmi thought for a moment and replied "There should be about 5 million people"

Mira said in shock "F-five million? I never saw that many people!" Funmi chuckled and said "Of course you didn't see all of them, this city is very large, you've only seen a small part of it, there are many people that live underground". Mira said "That's crazy".

Their group went into a building that was some meters away from the crowd of people. Inside the large room where they went to, there were about 240 people inside. From her IP she found out that they were mostly Rank 3s and there were 13 Rank 4s in the room excluding the Pentagon members.

People were giving side glances to Mira but none of them came to ask questions, they just murmured among themselves.